The FMR Jazz Workshop
Biggish Band will be performing at the Masque Theatre, 37
Main Road, Muizenberg this Sunday7 March at
19h00.

The Masque Theatre is a
well-known Muizenberg landmark which has survived the years against all
odds, and has even been entirely rebuilt after it
was destroyed by fire in 1997.
It boasts comfortable seats and a
'raked' auditorium
(you know, with the seats up at an angle looking down
at the stage, like you mostly only find posh venues) to ensure a
good view, and a colourful foyer with fully
licensed bar for that necessary drink during the
interval. The Masque is well known for it's regular run of productions by
various of Cape Town's dramatic societies, and the JWBB is looking forward
to becoming part of the Muizenberg scenery.

This more or less rounds
off the summer's campaign aimed at getting out of Observatory and around
the Western Cape a bit more -- a round trip which included gigs at
Langebaan, Stellenbosch, Somerset West, Hout Bay, Durbanville and now
Muizenberg, which will have been the furthest South that we've been ..!

This occasion will also
see the premier performance of another new composition written for the
JWBB, another from the illustrious pen of Douglas Armstrong. It is a
little indigenous sounding gem called "Waiting for Phoebe" (which
is exactly what Douglas was doing when the tune came to him, as his
daughter Phoebe was born shortly afterwards), which has a Goema feel (the
beat of the Kaapse Klopse, for those not in the know) and a very memorable
melody, which goes like this: " ta taha die daa daa daa die daa daa ta
daha da daa die da 2 3 4 ... " etc .....

Other than that we'll
be
playing a selection of our trademark repertoire
of original Big Band Jazz, composed for us by the likes of Mertyn Barrow,
David Ledbetter, Douglas Armstrong and Jannie 'Hanepoot' van Tonder, as
well as some new arrangements of South African classics by Zakes Nkosi,
Hugh Masekela, Dollar Brand, Chris McGregor, etc

Ticket prices are R35 for their members
of the Masque Theatre and R40 for non-members.

The next JWBB gig after
this will be a short performance as part of a Carnival procession at the
Cape Town Festival on Fri 19 March...

The JWBB is an amateur Big Band
based in Cape Town, and lead by trombonist Jannie 'Hanepoot'
van Tonder
The JWBB plays original compositions written for the band, as well as
arrangements of South African Jazz standards.